Publicity Chair

ACL Publicity Handbook

ACL Publicity Handbook

[under development]

Sarvnaz Karimi

With input from previous ACL directors
Barbara Plank

and *ACL publicity chairs

Wei Xu, Eduard Hovy, Shiqi Zhao, Emily M. Bender, Esther Seyffarth, Anna Rogers,
Leshem Choshen, Raffaella Bernardi, Eva Vanmassenhove, Yuki Arase
[please add your name here if you provided suggestions to improve this handbook]

2019-2026

Table of Contents {#table-of-contents}

Table of Contents 2

Aim of this handbook 3

Information for Publicity Chairs of *ACL Conferences 3

Official ACL Social Media Accounts 4

Official Social Media Accounts for Other Chapters 4

Official Hashtags 5

Live tweeting 5

Virtual Conferences 5

List of national and regional language technology associations 5

Mailing lists 5

Information for Chairs of ACL Affiliated Conferences 6

Nominating publicity chairs 6

The Role of the Publicity Director and Deputy of ACL 7

ACL publicity directors team 7

Guide for Publicity Chairs On-boarding/Off-boarding 8

Former Publicity Chairs 8

Acknowledgements 10

Aim of this handbook {#aim-of-this-handbook}

This handbook aims to guide new publicity chairs of *ACL conferences provide an overview of the role of the publicity director and deputy, collect information on previous publicity efforts at ACL, and provide guidance for future ACL directors with the transition of knowledge for publicity chairs between conferences.

Information for Publicity Chairs of *ACL Conferences {#information-for-publicity-chairs-of-*acl-conferences}

The publicity chair has the following roles:

  • International reach (main responsibility): Disseminating information about the conference (calls for papers, etc.) to the largest possible appropriate technical audience. This is often handled through mailing lists and social media. Publicity chairs maintain a social media stream before and during the conference (e.g., Facebook and Twitter). The publicity director(s) will provide access to persistent social media accounts (from 2019/2020 onwards).
  • Local reach: Accessing and bringing in the press during the conference.

Important instructions and warnings:

  • Create an event page on ACL portal for the CFP to be distributed via ACL Portal.
  • Many mailing lists or websites may require several days to have messages posted. Start registering to the mailing lists and posting at least a week in advance. We have created a dedicated announcements@aclweb.org email address to be used for announcements to mailing lists (e.g., corpora-list). To post from the dedicated email address, contact the ACL publicity director/deputy.
  • The major role of the publicity chair is to advertise the conference and inform people of important updates. Hence, continuous communication with the general chair, local chair, website chair and program chairs is necessary. The information is generally supplied by the chairs of that conference and may include announcements about important dates, instructions for authors for the preparation of their submissions, as well as information on conference attendance, best papers, etc. and dissemination during the conference.
  • For posting live updates during the conference period, publicity chairs should be well-synched with other chairs responsible for platforms that also post live updates, e.g., conference app, Underline, and website, to avoid confusion due to the distribution of outdated and possibly conflicting information.

Announcements are distributed in two forms: mailing lists and social media outlets. Publicity chairs should also be prepared to answer enquiries through social media regarding the related conference and coordinate with the conference chairs. Since ACL 2019, dedicated slack channels have been set up via the ACL Information Officer to provide access to conference chairs and the ACL backbone officers (acl-organization.slack.com).

Publicity chairs are responsible for handling interactions with social media posts. If clarifications are needed and they can answer directly, they should do so, otherwise, they can seek answers from Programme chairs and post the responses. Either way, keeping an eye on social media platforms, especially Twitter is important to ensure the right information is posted and all the questions answered.

Recommendations:

  • We recommend appointing several publicity chairs, to cover different time zones and distribute responsibilities (pre-conference/during conference, and similarity platforms: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Weibo, local press)

Source: https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Publicity_chair_duties (This content is a revised form of the previous publicity chair duties page)

Example timeline

An example timeline, adapted from earlier ACL handbook

Timeline: (Approximate months only)

A. As soon as chairs are selected:

Get access to social media accounts from the publicity director/deputy, update conference information

Identify media outlets with the local organizing committee (e.g., university press, tech magazines, TV stations, etc). Optional: national or international media outlets

B. 6-10 months before the conference, mainly information dissemination

First, second and last CFP
Call-for-participation of tutorials, demos, etc.
Any social media updates suggested by chairs

C. 4-5 months before the conference

Disseminate information via social media, and handle incoming requests with General and Program Chairs

Promote information from Program Co-Chairs and General Chairs

Confirm with chairs on the official hashtag and announce via social media

Promote registration when the website is up

Promote conference venue information

Promote other information on the conference website (e.g., reminder for visa application, conference hotel booking, etc.)

D. Month before the Conference

Reminder of registration deadlines (early, regular and onsite)

Promote info about invited speakers and other conference activities

Promote any info requested by the chairs

Promote accepted papers

Seek volunteers and organize live tweeting sessions during the conference (see suggestions by Emily and Esther later)

E. During Conference

Promote reminders of all the main events/activities, as well as tutorial and workshop information

Work with webmaster and chairs to disseminate any important information; also to make sure there's no discrepancy in schedule between different sources (e.g. handbook vs conference app)

Promote any last-minute changes or corrections

Take photos of sessions, optional: post to ACLNLP Instagram account

Re-tweet/repost important posts

Manage live tweeting/posting from Mastodon for different sessions, including workshops

Organize media outlets

Automating tasks

Tools and techniques that automate or streamline the activities of the publicity chairs can reduce the amount of manual work that is needed, particularly during the conference itself. Some automation examples:

  • Scheduling announcements or other social media updates in advance, e.g. with the "Schedule tweet" function. One task can be to prepare the live tweeting based on the papers that received the best paper awards/were highly recommended. You can ask program chairs for this information a few days in advance, so you can skim through the papers and write tweets about those in advance and schedule the tweets a bit before they are presented. The same can be done for the best reviewers and the people receiving awards.
  • Using forms instead of email for communication with large groups wherever possible.
  • Using automation services such as Zapier to process recurring tasks.

Official ACL Social Media Accounts {#official-acl-social-media-accounts}

As of 2019/2020, the following accounts are known as official accounts for ACL.

  • X/Twitter: (aclmeeting) https://twitter.com/aclmeeting?lang=en

    Information on *ACL conferences and official ACL announcements. This is used by ACL publicity chairs for conference-related posts. Publicity chairs are added via Tweet Teams. ACL publicity director and deputy post general ACL organization announcements. Persistent page started with ACL 2020 (set up by the information officer in 2019).

Main and most active social media channel.

  • Instagram: (aclmeeting) (Used to be called aclnlp before June 17, 2020)

https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting

Designated to the ACL conferences and will mostly be active during the conference period. It is to share some of the photos from the conference as well as short videos. Started with ACL 2017. Publicity chairs may use this account to also add some material for an upcoming event (e.g., information on a venue), speakers or other suitable content.

  • Facebook: (aclmeeting)

https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting/

Each ACL conference will have a designated event on the Facebook page. This event can be created by the ACL publicity director or deputy.

Note that a persistent page started with ACL 2020 and any other existing page has no current affiliation with the ACL.

For main conference announcements and ACL organization updates.

  • Weibo: (aclmeeting) - On hold

weibo.com/aclmeeting

To post on Weibo, we currently coordinate with Zhumin Chen at chenzhumin@sdu.edu.cn.
To do: recover this account.

  • LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/

Started in 2019. It is a moderated and closed group for the ACL community. The ACL director(s) monitor it. Membership is not granted to recruiters but members of the ACL can advertise their open positions in this group. It is also open to any other professional posts from the members. ACL exec may post their announcement in this group as well.

This is used for irregular updates and mostly for ACL organizational information.

  • Mastodon:

Since December 2022, *ACL has also had persistent accounts on Mastodon (sigmoid.social):

Usernames: eaclmeeting, aclmeeting, naaclmeeting, emnlpmeeting, aaclmeeting
To register these accounts, the information officer has created dedicated *acl.meeting.publicity@aclweb.org email accounts that the ACL publicity director and deputy have access to. The first Mastodon account that was created and is given to publicity chairs is for EACL 2023.

The *ACL publicity chairs will be given the login credentials to use these accounts for the respective conference year.

  • Bluesky

Created in November 2024, the same handles as the other social media platforms:

Usernames: @aclmeeting.bsky.social, @aaclmeeting.bsky.social, @eaclmeeting.bsky.social, @naaclmeeting.bsky.social, @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

Official Social Media Accounts for Other Chapters {#official-social-media-accounts-for-other-chapters}

  • EACL Twitter: (eaclmeeting)

https://twitter.com/eaclmeeting

Information on EACL conferences. This is used by EACL publicity chairs for conference-related posts. Started with EACL 2021\. Set up by the Publicity director in 2020\.
  • EMNLP Twitter (emnlpmeeting)

Registered. In use since EMNLP 2021. Set up by the Publicity director in 2020.

EMNLP 2020 had their own dedicated account.

  • NAACL Twitter (naaclmeeting)

Registered. In use since NAACL 2022.

NAACL had their own dedicated account before 2022: NAACLHLT.

  • AACL Twitter (aaclmeeting)

Registered. First used during AACL 2021. Set up by the Publicity director in 2020.

Official Hashtags {#official-hashtags}

We encourage using consistent hashtags as follows:

  • ACL announcements (e.g. election results): #NLProc and #ACLNLP (together)

  • ACL Conference hashtag:

  • #ACL\<year>NLP (started uppercase Dec 2020) and appends NLP to avoid overlap with football

  • EACL: #EACL\<year>

  • NAACL: #NAACL\<year>

  • EMNLP: #EMNLP\<year>

Live tweeting {#live-tweeting}

What’s next is an overview of live tweeting with recommendations from the publicity chairs of ACL 2020 and EMNLP/COLING 2020.

Multilingual live tweeting

The ACL 2020 publicity chairs[^1] organised a team of live microblogging volunteers with the goal of making research presented at the conference visible to a wider community. The microblogging efforts were inspired by previous conferences (especially NAACL 2019), and some aspects were added/changed:

  1. Since talks were pre-recorded, microbloggers were able to watch and summarize them at their own convenience. We encouraged microbloggers to do so before the Q\&A associated with the paper, if possible.
  2. Microbloggers were invited to post in other languages than English, which led to the use of roughly 20 different language-specific hashtags. (We used the format #acl2020xx where xx was the BCP-47 language code; all languages in our sample had two-letter codes through BCP-47.) This initiative was well-received, with microbloggers reporting connections to NLP research communities they hadn’t been connected to before because of their non-English tweets. Microbloggers also expressed excitement about having this platform to reach out to their communities in this way.
  3. Microbloggers were not restricted to Twitter as in past conferences but were free to choose platforms on which to post. The platforms with the highest number of microbloggers for the conference were Twitter (32 volunteers) and Weibo (8 volunteers).
  4. Microbloggers were not assigned to conference sessions (impossible in the virtual format), but instead to topic areas and balanced across areas. They were asked to cover at least 5 papers from their area. With the help of Matt Post from the ACL Anthology, we provided a list of first-time authors at ACL to microbloggers, and asked them to include at least one of these "newcomers" among the first three papers they covered.

We held a one-hour microblogging tutorial over Zoom in the week leading up to the conference and provided written notes to the volunteers to guide them. We recorded this presentation to share with microbloggers who couldn’t attend live and can share it with the next publicity chair(s) should that be helpful. Information (profile URLs, names, etc.) was collected from live microbloggers using a Microsoft Office form.

During the conference, we retweeted Twitter threads about papers from the official @aclmeeting Twitter account. We used an automation service (Zapier) to watch the hashtag on Twitter and add information to a spreadsheet to help us keep track of which tweets had already been retweeted. This provided one kind of benefit to the microbloggers, in the form of increased visibility. We believe that the retweeting of the non-English tweets also raised the visibility of ACL as an international and inclusive organization. One suggestion we have for future conferences that adopt this is to establish a system to allow the “official” microbloggers to signal to the publicity chairs that specific tweets are just personal commentary about an ACL paper and shouldn’t be retweeted. (For the most part, we took the lack of inclusion of the language-specific hashtag to signal this, but when the tag for English was left off, and the microblogger was tweeting about a specific paper, it was less clear.)

New since EMNLP 2020: author consent & lookup information

One of the difficult and error-prone parts of live tweeting is determining whether the authors have professional Twitter accounts and whether they would prefer to be tagged in tweets related to their work or not. Some may even prefer for their work to not be livetweeted at all.

EMNLP 2020 and COLING 2020 sent all the registered authors a quick survey (via a Microsoft form, to accommodate the authors from China) asking for (a) the paper ID, (b) whether the paper should be excluded from livetweeting, (c) if not, which author accounts should be tagged, if any. In EMNLP, about 40% of authors responded, and most indicated the preference to be tagged. Although the number of authors preferring to not have their work live-tweeted was small (less than 10), it is clear that some people do prefer to not participate, so we recommend that such surveys be conducted.

To further facilitate live-tweeting, the volunteers were provided with a spreadsheet containing:

  • Paper IDs, organized by conference sessions;
  • Paper titles
  • accounts to tag, if any, or preference to be excluded from livetweeting;
  • any associated URLs: slideslive, ACL anthology, etc. - whatever can be determined before the conference and either is or will be openly accessible. This can be done automatically to greatly speed up the lookup, thus letting the volunteers focus on the content of their tweets.
  • Given the above, it is also easy to generate the thread headers according to any recommended templates, which would also help the volunteers focus on the content rather than assembling/formatting the basic information.
Advice on first-time live tweeting {#advice-on-first-time-live-tweeting}

A FAQ for first-time live tweeters has been created by Anna Rogers and can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hsnNQcw77HbZf6G9Xkv0hWzHsqQ6t8Q1fbYaoZis9NA/edit?usp=sharing

Virtual Conferences

[todo]

List of national and regional language technology associations {#list-of-national-and-regional-language-technology-associations}

\<this part is under development> [todo: update after our NLP “groups” survey in summer 2020]

Mailing lists {#mailing-lists}

Publicity chairs are responsible for posting the conference's main communications, such as calls for papers and calls for participation, to mailing lists. This can be done through one of these options:

  1. [Recommended] It is recommended that the dedicated announcements@aclweb.org email address be used to spread such information. To do this, please email the content to the ACL’s publicity director (currently, email to sarvnaz.karimi@gmail.com) and they will post it on your behalf. The email will be posted under the name of “ACL Announcements”.
  2. Subscribe to different mailing lists (listed below) with your email address, and post to each of those you prefer.
Mailing List Audience How to Join/Submit
ACL official list (Portal) ACL Members Email to: jennifer@aclweb.org
Corpora List Mostly NLP researchers and Practitioners corpora-bounces@uib.no
SIGIR List Mostly Information Retrieval Community Subscription: https://sigir.org/sig-irlist/ Email: sigir@acm.org
ML News Machine learning community Google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!categories/ml-news/cfp Email: ml-news@googlegroups.com
WikiCFP Register and login to post: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/
Other SIGlists https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Compliance
linguist-list Linguists (not necessarily Computational linguists or ML) https://linguistlist.org/

Interacting with the media

NEEDS WORK

Information for Chairs of ACL Affiliated Conferences {#information-for-chairs-of-acl-affiliated-conferences}

Nominating publicity chairs {#nominating-publicity-chairs}

We recommend choosing more than one publicity chair for each conference. General chairs typically recruit the publicity chairs. It helps if the chairs are already familiar with different platforms and active on at least one.

Several chairs helped to divide up the effort (e.g. ACL 2019 had three chairs, and each one was responsible for one social media platform: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram). As Instagram is typically only used during the conference, it might be an idea to have two chairs (pre-conference: Twitter & Facebook/CFP distribution via mailing lists, during the conference: Instagram).

Recruiting several publicity chairs from different time zones allows better monitoring of social media in different time intervals, and to distribution of the tasks. The peak times of social media attendance are around submission and closer to the conference time, as well as during the conference.

Once the publicity chair(s) are chosen, they can start conversations with the respective conference chairs. Moreover, for any questions on how to handle publicity duties, they are welcome to reach out to the ACL publicity director and deputy.

When a conference concludes and the publicity duties are over, please contact the ACL’s publicity director and they will change the passwords and hand them over to the next year’s chairs. Please do not exchange credentials directly with the new chairs.

The Role of the Publicity Director and Deputy of ACL {#the-role-of-the-publicity-director-and-deputy-of-acl}

ACL publicity directors do not serve as publicity chairs for *ACL events during their term. They are the backbone to streamline publicity efforts and help the respective conference-specific publicity chairs in the best way possible. In particular, the publicity director and deputy’s duties include:

“The main duties of the ACL Publicity Director are to facilitate the publicizing of ACL research and accomplishments and help coordinate publicity efforts across the ACL organization. More specifically, the duties of the Publicity Director are to:

  • Lead a new effort to publicize ACL research results to the scientific community and the public at large. This duty includes but is not limited to:
  • Working with the ACL Anthology Director and the ACL IT Director to select and/or configure software for scientific publicizing efforts.
  • Leading efforts to coach interested ACL members about how to make their research more understandable to and noticed by the public.
  • Coordinate publicity efforts across ACL chapters, conferences, and the ACL proper. This duty includes but is not limited to:
  • Working with the ACL IT Director, the heads of the ACL Chapters, the current Conference Chairs, and the Workshop Chairs to coordinate software selection, for web pages, blogs, and social media software for conferences and workshops.

  • Informing the ACL Exec about issues that arise around social media usage or other aspects of publicity, and informing the membership about policy decisions the ACL Exec has made about publicity, social media usage, etc”

  • Maintain and moderate official ACL social media accounts.

  • Keeping this handbook up-to-date for reference for others in the community. It is particularly important for the publicity chairs of the *ACL conferences to get access to the information preserved here as a means to transfer knowledge to the next chairs.

  • Might be helpful to organise a meeting early with the new publicity chairs of each conference to explain the tasks to them.

ACL publicity director officers team {#acl-publicity-director-officers-team}

2023- Sarvnaz Karimi (ACL publicity director)
2019-2022 Barbara Plank (ACL publicity director) Sarvnaz Karimi (ACL publicity director deputy) 2021- Zhumin Chen \<chenzhumin@sdu.edu.cn> (for Weibo) 2019-2020 Zhiyuan Liu (Weibo publicity director) 2021- Zhumin Chen \<chenzhumin@sdu.edu.cn> (for Weibo) Volunteers: Reports: [ACL 2020 business meeting slides]

Guide for Publicity Chairs On-boarding/Off-boarding {#guide-for-publicity-chairs-on-boarding/off-boarding}

The tasks of the Publicity Director and the deputy:

Off-boarding of publicity chairs

  1. After the conference, the publicity director reaches out to the publication chairs and thanks them for their efforts; ask them if they are willing to be contacted for future inquiries and whether they are willing to provide suggestions to improve this handbook
  2. Remove users from X/Twitter Teams
  3. Remove editor roles from Facebook
  4. Upgrade logo on Twitter to next *ACL edition
  5. Add the new event on Facebook with the next *ACL edition
  6. Monitor social media channels until new chairs are appointed
  7. Reach out to next year’s general/PC chairs

Onboarding of publicity chairs

  1. Contact *ACL general chair/PC chairs to get in touch with appointed publicity chairs (if chairs have not yet gotten in touch)
  2. Provide access to Social Media accounts:
  3. Add Twitter handle of publicity chair(s) to X/Twitter Teams for @*acl/emnlp/meeting etc.
  4. Update logo/banner on Twitter (or ask publicity chairs to provide files so that the director/deputy will update them)
  5. Add Publicity chair(s) to Facebook page
  6. Ask Weibo chair to recruit/post
  7. Ask the information officer to add chairs to announcements@aclweb.org for posting announcements
  8. Point them to this publicity handbook and ACL wiki posts of previous publicity chairs (linked below), and possibly provide contact to former chairs who volunteered to help

Former & Current Publicity Chairs & Reports {#former-&-current-publicity-chairs-&-reports}

ACL 2026 Raj Dabre, Wei Xu, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Debora Nozza, Yaping Zhang [Report - To be completed after the conference]
ACL 2025 Anette Frank, Shruti Rijhwani, Horacio Saggion [Report]
ACL 2024 Yuki Arase, Dimitra Gkatzia, Jing Jiang [Report]
ACL 2023 Devamanyu Hazarika, Eva Vanmassenhove, Tong Xu
ACL 2022 Joel Tetreault, Isabelle Augenstein, Emmanuele Chersoni, Diana Maynard, Soujanya Poria [Report]
ACL 2021 Kai-Fam Wong, Luciana Benotti, Lidong Bing, Zhumin Chen (Weibo), Rachele Sprugnoli, Mark Seligman [Report]
ACL 2020 Emily M. Bender, Esther Seyffarth, Zhiyuan Liu (Weibo) [Report]
ACL 2019 Felice Dell’Orletta, Lucia Passaro and Sara Tonelli [Report]
ACL 2018 Sarvnaz Karimi [Report]
ACL 2017 Charley Chan [Report]
ACL 2016 Barbara Plank [Report]
ACL 2015 Xianpei Han, Kang Liu [Report]
ACL 2014 Jason Riesa [Report]
ACL 2013 Anisava Miltenova, Ivan Derzhanski, Anna Korhonen [Report]
ACL 2012 Kung-jae Kim, Youngjoong Ko
ACL 2011 --none (inferred from the proceedings frontmatter)--
EMNLP 2025 Dallas Card, Aaron Mueller, Yash Kumar Lal
EMNLP 2024 Shruti Rijhwani, Elias Stengel-Eskin
EMNLP 2023 Weiwei Sun, Noriki Nishida
EMNLP 2022 Eunsol Choi, Wajdi Zaghouani
EMNLP 2021 Raffaella Bernardi, Preethi Jyothi
EMNLP 2020 Anna Rogers, Ruifeng Xu
EMNLP 2019 Sebastian Ruder, Wei Xu
EMNLP 2018 Mohit Iyyer
NAACL 2024 Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Najoung Kim, Samuel Gonzalez
NAACL 2022 Nanyun Peng, Emily Sheng, Sameer Singh
NAACL 2021 Sarah Wiegreffe, Enrico Santus, Peng Qi [report in progress]
NAACL 2019 Yuval Pinter, Rachael Tatman
NAACL 2018 Yonatan Bisk, Wei Xu
EACL 2026
EACL 2024 Yuval Pinter, Miryam de Lhoneux, Sungho Jeon
EACL 2023 Joel Tetrault, Leshem Coshem
EACL 2021 Julie Weeds
AACL 2027
AACL 2026
AACL 2025 Raj Dabre, Wenjie Wang, Sunny Manchanda

Tasks and timelines for publicity chairs

This is proposed by the ACL’25 publicity chairs:

Tasks/Milestones Task dependencies When to Start Deadline Status (Completed/Pending) Publicity and Social Media Chairs
Get in touch with last year's chairs None ASAP
Get informed about ACL accounts to be transferred (especially social media) None ASAP
Check that all accounts have been transferred, including the ability to publish on MLs, ACL portal, etc. Access has been requested
Specify responsibilities among chairs (e.g. managing social media outlets or mailing lists) None
Create & Share joint posting schedule document among publicity chairs (will be extended to include further documents: posting requests from Chairs; shared program sheets, PubChair todo list, collections of posted messages for future reuse or inspiration) None
Create shared document for all chairs for requests on posting, distribute to all chairs None
Invite chairs to pre-specify need for social media support structured into a) pre-conference; b) during conference, c) after the conference; send reminder on Slack Create and include a structured sheet
Create LLM prompts for quick message drafting None
Collect tags and hashs for Workshops None
Contact ACL Anthology director (Matt Post) e.g. to obtain a list of first-time first authors at ACL; send reminder about 2 weeks before conference None
Make a plan for posting activities during the conference Work flows have been tested and consolidated
Ask for volunteers for live-tweeting
Prepare a plan for live-tweeting and give instructions/tutorial for live-tweeters
Prepare list, content & schedule tweets for planned messages during the conference (remind of starting events, tutorials (lists), keynotes, sessions, special sessions) from welcome dinner to best paper awards and farewell statements)
Preparing, scheduling and posting pre-announcements
On-site posting on social media w/ daily program summary guides, end-of-day highlights, photos, etc. every day during the conference
WhatsApp communication between chairs to share photos and other information during the conference for easy posting on social media (including division of social media posting between on-site vs. remote chairs)
Retweeting live tweets from other ACL participants (by searching for the #ACL2025NLP hashtag)

Acknowledgements {#acknowledgements}

Some of the materials are taken from “Publicity chair duties”, by Wei Xu, Barbara Plank, Eduard Hovy, Shiqi Zhao (April 2017) and the Q3 reports by the ACL. We thank everyone who has contributed to this document.

[^1]: The following excerpt is from the ACL 2020 publicity chair post-conference report (linked in Section Former Publicity Chairs & Reports below).